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An exploration of international innovation in service user involvement across three countries
- Authors:
- DUFFY Joe, MARTINEZ-ROMAN Maria, ZAVIRSEK Darja
- Publication year:
- 2013
- Pagination:
- 19 mins 53 seconds
This film is from a project which examines social work from the perspective of service users and carers across three countries, Northern Ireland, Slovenia and Spain. Social work students from Queen’s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland, the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia and the University of Alicante, Spain interviewed service users and carers on film using seven questions developed to examine key areas of social work skills, knowledge and values. The service users and carers were all already working across the three universities and had prior experience of involvement in social work education. Each country developed its own film and the three films were then edited together to produce a film where all of the service users and carers can be seen responding to the seven questions. (Original abstract)
ANED country report on the implementation of policies supporting independent living for disabled people: Slovenia
- Authors:
- ZAVIRSEK Darja, GORENC Katarina
- Publisher:
- Academic Network of European Disability Experts
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 17p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Utrecht
This report examines the progress in Slovenia on policies which support independent living for disabled people. The separate chapters of the report discuss: the legal and policy context; the progress towards independent community living; the types of support for independent living in the community (including personal assistance services and assistive equipment and adaptations); and evidence of good practice in the involvement of disabled people. The information contained in this report was compiled by the Academic Network of European Disability experts (ANED) in May 2009. It concludes that Slovenia has no specific laws to support independent living in the community, but some parts of the laws and policy documents give the opportunity to live independently and some policy papers could be interpreted as documents which give the possibility for independent living. Nevertheless, none of them use the term ‘independent living’ and none of them are binding. The same is true for the local use of international documents. The figures on the number of people with disabilities who live at home reflect the fact that laws and policy papers support some forms of deinstitutionalisation but not really independent living, as in many cases people who are at home are dependent on family members who become their family helpers.
Can we remember differently? A case study of the new culture of memory in voluntary organisations
- Author:
- MOZINA Miran
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Social Welfare, 11(4), October 2002, pp.310-320.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This article analyses the positive contribution that Slovenian voluntary, non-governmental organisations, users' organisations and community-based services in the field of mental health have made to the 'new culture of memory' of helpers and users. The real challenge of the new culture of memory in the process of help to disabled people (in respect of individuals working through traumatic memories) is that the helper can bear and support the user on a daily basis. During the process of their relationship, the deep implicit relational memories of both become activated and influence the change within the user as well as the helper.
Payments for care: a comparative overview
- Editors:
- EVERS Adalbert, PIJL Marja, UNGERSON Clare
- Publisher:
- Avebury
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 358p.,tables,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Aldershot
Presents a collection of papers looking at how payments for care schemes are developing across Western and Central Europe, the United States and Canada. Includes discussions of payments to 'volunteers', and consideration of the way in which social security and tax systems work to increase the incomes of care recipients and their carers. Also includes introductory chapters discussing general and theoretical issues involved in the development of systems of payments for care including the labour market, empowerment and the relationship between carers and care recipients.